Craig Sherborne

Australian poet, playwright and novelist

Craig Sherborne
Born	1962 Sydney, New South Wales
Language	English
Nationality	Australian
Years active	1989-

Craig Sherborne (born 1962) is an Australian poet, playwright and novelist. He was born in Sydney and attended Scots College there before studying drama in London. He lives in Melbourne.^[1]

Awards

The Ones Out of Town, 1989 winner Wal Cherry Play of the Year Award for Best Unproduced Play
Hoi Polloi 2006 shortlisted Victorian Premier's Literary Awards — The Nettie Palmer Prize for Non-Fiction
Hoi Polloi 2007 highly commended National Biography Award
Muck 2008 shortlisted Victorian Premier's Literary Awards — The Nettie Palmer Prize for Non-Fiction
Muck 2008 winner Queensland Premier's Literary Awards — Best Non-Fiction Book
The Amateur Science of Love 2011 shortlisted Victorian Premier's Literary Awards — The Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction
The Amateur Science of Love 2012 winner Melbourne Prize — Best Writing Award
The Amateur Science of Love 2012 shortlisted New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards — UTS Award for New Writing
Tree Palace 2015 shortlisted Miles Franklin Literary Award^[2]

Bibliography

This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. (August 2018)

Novels

The Amateur Science of Love (2011)^[3]
Tree Palace (2014)
Off the Record: A novel (2018)^[4]
The Grass Hotel (2022)^[5]

Poetry

Collections

Necessary Evil (2006)

List of poems

Title	Year	First published
Hay	1996	Sherborne, Craig (January–February 1996). "Hay". Quadrant. 40 (1–2): 21.
The lopper	1996	Sherborne, Craig (March 1996). "The lopper". Quadrant. 40 (3 [324]): 61.
Superstitions of the harvest bell	1996	Sherborne, Craig (March 1996). "Superstitions of the harvest bell". Quadrant. 40 (3 [324]): 61.

Drama

The Ones Out of Town (1989)
Look at Everything Twice, For Me (1999)
Off the Record (2004)

Autobiography

Hoi Polloi (2005)
Muck (2007)

References

^ Austlit - Craig Sherborne
^ "The Miles Franklin Literary Award 2015 Shortlist". The Trust Company. Retrieved 29 May 2015.^{[permanent dead link]}
^ The Amateur Science of Love, book by Craig Sherborne. 2 January 2014. ISBN 978-1-922147-77-6.
^ Off the Record: A Novel, book by Craig Sherborne. 29 January 2018. ISBN 978-1-925603-24-8.
^ The Grass Hotel, book by Craig Sherborne. 1 February 2022. ISBN 978-1-922458-35-3.